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...year-olds from the villages it holds. Though the V.C. may not be winning control of more villages, they are not losing many either. Thus far, only 500 or 600 of South Viet Nam's 13,000 hamlets have been successfully and permanently secured, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. armed forces chief in South Viet Nam, plans to expand his search-and-destroy operations into search-destroy-and-hold operations. The change, he figures, will help maintain security over liberated villages and give the now-foundering pacification program new hope...
...Moshe Dayan's stunningly quick victory, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky asked him how he did it. "Well, to start with," said the Israeli Defense Minister, "it helps if you can arrange to fight against Arabs." Lyndon Johnson personally sent a black eyepatch to General Westmoreland. Nasser quit, but Levi Eshkol refused to accept his resignation. At week's end, the New York Times ran a full-page ad for Israel's El Al Airlines: VISIT ISRAEL AND SEE THE PYRAMIDS...
General William Westmoreland, who was quick to appreciate Walt's achievements-as was the Pentagon, which awarded him his third star after just nine months in Viet Nam-asked the Marine in the spring of 1966 to extend his one-year tour for six months. Then, after Walt's smashing defeat of a North Vietnamese division last summer, Westy asked him to stay another six months...
...Westmoreland, in an unusually warm tribute at change-of-command ceremonies last week in Danang, pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Walt's barrel chest and said: "My admiration for this man is without bounds. General Walt is a Marine's Marine and a soldier's soldier. He's not only big physically but big morally, a man of almost unique professional abilities, an officer of great courage and outstanding leadership attributes...
...Landers? In Viet Nam? But there she was, getting the tour and interviewing General Westmoreland. Except for Westmoreland, however, Ann avoided the brass. She headed instead for the hospitals and spent her ten days in Viet Nam talking to the wounded. "I saw 2,100 boys and talked to every one of them," she says. "Since I've been back, I've made 305 long-distance calls to wives, parents and sweethearts of guys who gave me a telephone number and asked me to call someone back home. The trip was worth every minute...